Mata Hari Quotes
It's not just a matter of going through Heat and chucking in anyone. You have to have a pretty one, a funny one, a thick one and a mad one.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.
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I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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It's not just a matter of going through Heat and chucking in anyone. You have to have a pretty one, a funny one, a thick one and a mad one.
